Matt C.
Yelp
We stayed twice in the same week, three days apart. Our second experience was far superior to the first. The Atrium rooms are below grade...odd. We found it too be noisy. The room is nice, but has overly fussy and, in some cases, illogical light switches. I know this sounds like a very minor issue, but in a room with virtually no ambient light, practicality should be the word of the day. Our room had one window at the top of a high (30 ft?) shaft at one end of the room. It had a shade, which was thankfully down when we arrived. We were unable, despite several attempts to make the automated shade go up. A miss. Most of the lighting had buttons that you held down and then brightened to full and then went back off. Frustrating when you just want to turn a light on and off. There's a large chandelier that wasn't wired for such theatrics, so it launched into a dizzying array of flashes whenever it was adjusted. A miss. The bathroom lighting was just bizarre. The randomness with which the lights worked with the switches was maddening...again, in a room with no ambient light. A miss. This room also had a wooden frame around the box spring. We noted that it seemed unusually high and would likely cripple one of us during our stay. It aligned perfectly with my knee cap, so I was the unlucky victim. A miss.
Our second stay we asked for a "different experience" and were placed on the third floor of the second building...it's a short walk, across an alley from the front desk. The "lobby" which unmanned in V2 is a nice space. A couple was having their engagement photos shot when we arrived. This building is quieter, but does have a lounge, open to the public, on the roof. It's a nice space to watch the sunset and draws quite a crowd leading up to that, so you'll likely wait for the single elevator if it's in the hours leading up to sunset. A miss. A separate elevator should have been installed for guests going to the room floors. The room floors do require key card access, but since you're all in the same elevator, it's a bit of a security miss, too. Overall V2 is the better option. At nearly double the price of other area hotels, it's a place we are glad we tried, but it is unlikely we'd return.